good afternoon and welcome to the mayor's office on disabilities meeting. heather will call roll. thank you. >> harriet chiu wong? present. chip, absent. sarah berg, absent. james absent, denise

present. >> items on today's agenda. 1. welcome introduction and roll call. action item 2, reading of agenda. >> 3, public comment and action not on the agenda. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> 4, information item. report from the chair. >> 5, information item report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. >> 6: information item. city careshare. access for all. city careshare will provide an over

rue of the program and the expansion mobility for offices that uses mobility devices. the presentation is by rick hutchinson, ceo of city careshare. 7, information item support with family for disabilities services provided for families with individuals with disabilities. education manager and felix lopez, education coordinator. >> at 2:20 we'll break. the council will take a 10 minute break. 8. information item. everybody plays as san francisco recreation and parks. the adaptive recreation program to include supports for persons with disabilities. lucas and

vickie inclusion coordinator. public comment is welcome. >> 9. recreation item capital improvement status and accessibility updates. presentation by paulina. project manager and physical access a d.a. coordinator from the san francisco recreation and parks department. public comment is welcome. >> 10. report from the physical access committee. >> 11 report from the disaster preparedness committee. >> 12, s fm t a multi-motile. >> 13. public comment.

>> items not on today's agenda. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> 14, information item correspondence. >> 15, agenda item. 16, adjourned. >> excuse me. roll an wong will read the introductions. bear with me. please read the introductions. >> okay. good afternoon and welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday april 19th in room 400 of san francisco city hall. our meetings are fully accessible. please note that city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other assistive

mobility devices. wheel chair access is provided at the grove van ness and mccall. wheelchair access at the polk street, entrance is temporarily interrupted due to extensive wheelchair lift repairs. we appreciate your patience during this time and ask that you use any of the remaining entrances when visiting city hall assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open caption and sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance.

to prepare electronic interference with the sound system and to respect everybody's ability to focus on the presentation please either turn off all mobile phones and pda and change these devices to vibrate mode. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome public participation to make a comment. you may fill out a speaker card available at the front of the room or call our bridge line at4155 554-9632 where you will be recognize during public comment. the mayor's meetings are generally the 3rd friday of every month.

in order to assist the city in accommodating persons with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disability, please refrain from wearing sented products or wearing to the office. this includes perfume, sented lotion. thank you for helping us provide meetings that are fully accessible to all people with disabilities. our next meeting will be held on friday, may 17, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. here in san francisco city hall in room

400. please call the mayor's office on disability for further information or to request accommodations at4155 554-6789 voice, or 415 -- 6 p p y or e-mail at s f chlt gov.org. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. go back and get the approval for the agenda. we need a motion?

>> i so moved for the approval of the agenda. >> i second. >> thank you. >> so we will move on to public comment. item no. 3. >> please step up or roll up to the mic. thank you very much. >> i'm howard shab ner. it nice to be back here. thanks. >> thank you. >> the timer wasn't going. okay. good afternoon, thank you, it's nice to be here again, howard shab ner. i have spoken here several times about the effect of san francisco's campaign or war against cars is having on people with mobility disabilities. one of the things has been the lack of, the

increasing difficulty in finding parking spaces, the fact, the timer is not on. is there a -- i can keep on going, but i think three minutes will be enough. the epidemic of cyclist riding on the sidewalks with virtual impunity and dangerous design of some of the bike lanes such as jk drive. what i want to speak to you about today is mainly a project in my neighborhood basically two blocks from where i live which is masonic. the mta has a plan to spend $21 million to but put in a cycle track masonic all the way to feld and gearey. about two blocks from

masonic. they will move all street parking from both sides of masonic and they will reduce the travel lanes during rush hour because during many years there is an extra lane onrush hours and that will be reduced. they put platforms and that will reduce the travel lanes when there is a bus boarding. basically in terms of how this will affect disabled people it going to make it harder to find parking and will make the neighborhood congested and there will be spill over effects onto the side streets which are now uncongested and pleasant and safe. there is a lot of ways this can be improved without spending $20 million, how am i doing on time? >> one of the things that mta

claims is that this project has overwhelming community support. that is just baloney. i never received notice. nobody on my block received notice. i have spoken with dozens of people in the neighborhood and almost nobody has received notice. notice is done through selective outreach. i'm involved in a group of neighborhood people who are trying to get this to be rethought before the damage is done and before $21 million is spent. i should also add that some of the money is coming from prop k funds which are one of the fundings for curb ramps and other access improvements. before they spend that kind of money they ought to step up the pace on curb ramps. the web

address is save masonic.com. please go to that website. you will find a lot of information, extensive faq, a sample letter that you can use and also a link. one of the links is to save polk street. thank you again and please checkout save masonic.com. >> thank you. mark brown? >> i would like to appeal to the commission and to the mtc to have the 19 polk street bus remain the same as it has been for several years. i have read the planning commission's report on it and they want to eliminate service north and south to the library up in this neighborhood they want to

reroute the bus to mccall street to polk street which is really in use and they want to eliminate the 19 polk bus line at the hospital and make people transfer to the 48 line which is only going to run every half hour according to this report. this bus line is very important to people with disabilities and seniors coming up from the south east corner of the city. they come to port row hill. i really appeal that the mtc will consider this before they eliminate or cut back services on the 19 polk. thank you. >> thank you. is there anymore public comment? >> good afternoon.

>> excuse me. the captioning is working on the last tv. okay. it's not on our screen. it's on the last tv. okay. thank you. >> excuse me. >> hand-me-down my walking cane. we are going to have a meeting here and we are going to have a time to chat. going to catch the latest sound and we are going to blow your mind and we are going to have a good meeting in the city and town. we are going to have a good meeting every man and woman. do the best you can and i'm a fan and i will even give you a hand. and mayor's disability council, even though i wonder i'm keeping you in disability

sight. you are a candle in the window of city hall. i can't fight disability anymore. i forgot and what i have started fighting for. it's time to start bringing wheelchairs into shore. throw away the canes forever. i can't fight mayor's disability anymore. i forgot what i have started fighting for and we are going to make it better than better. it's better for ever and make it better than forever more. thanks. >> thank you very much. is there anymore public comment? okay. seeing that there is no more public comment. we'll go

to item 4, information team report from chair or cochair is it? right? i just would like to say report from cochair. i went to the new bay view branch public library. very beautiful place. you guys, it's really accessible. everyone should go there and look at it. it's very nice. then they had another event on how to grow your organization whether it's non-profit or just whether it's advocating at the library on monday last week and it was very informational and it will be at the public library again this coming monday. i was forgetting about them captions. sorry. it will be at the main library again this coming monday from 10-1:00. it's called how to grow your

business or advocate for things that you guys do. very wonderful meeting and you guys, free lunch. don't tell them i told you. okay. let's move on, you guys. let's go to item no. 5. information team report from the director of the mayor's office on disabilities. >> thank you cochair wilson. i'm carla johnson the interim director from the mayor's office on disabilities. it's good to see you again. i will keep my report fairly brief today because we have a great agenda today and i want to make sure our guest speaker from city careshare and support with families with disabilities have time to give their presentation. i have three topics today that i would like to tell you about. the first is

an update on the mayor's office on disability move to our new home. the second is the discussion about the upcoming mayor's budget town hall meeting and the last is an introduction to our single room occupancy technical assistance manual. >> the council agreed not to meet in march and that was because our office was very very busy with our move. you will recall that we left 401 van ness, the veterans memorial building because it's closing down for a seismic retrofit soon which is great for earthquake safety and we moved to our new office on 1155 market street. it's known to some of you as the old puc building. our office is very accessible and located across from the elevator from the bart

at the center civic station and besides the upside ground transits were by market street. it's right across from the federal building which is where 504 sit in took place. the occupation and demonstration were held back in june. this resulted in the signing of the health education and welfare regulation implementing section 504 of rehab act of 1973 which was the first civil rights protection with persons with disability in the history of the united states and set off the independent living and civil rights movement. we are in good company there on market street. our new place is really lovely. we have some private

office space where we can hold very confidential meetings that we have with our client base. we also have an open architectural access area that allows us to meet in large groups with the architects plans and other city departments that we work with on other minute projects and we have a space that is going to be handy soon. although it's going to be under construction, we would like to use these offices for some of the meetings for the executive committee meeting that will be taking place next tuesday. we would also like to start holding our physical access community meetings and disability disaster preparedness meeting there. it will help us a lot to hold these meetings at our office because we are currently under staff and if we can remain in

the office then we can keep the office running and functioning rather than close it down for short periods. i also wanted to follow-up on a suggestion, a request that coach wilson made that we would love to make our office available if the councilmembers wanted to meet with disability advocates especially around maybe planning presentations before the council. that space will be there for you as well. just let us know when you need it. and we would like to hold some kind of an office warming event soon to welcome everybody to our new place. one of these idea is to celebrate around the anniversary that takes place in july. i would like to invite

the council. speaking of invitations i would like to encourage you to join us at the mayor's town hall meetings monday morning and monday night. it's in coordination with the members of the board of supervisors and we take it to the neighborhoods. it's a way for people in the neighborhoods to hear from our elected officials about the priorities that the city believes are best, but most importantly it's an opportunity for neighbors and advocates to tell our elected officials about your priorities and by way of an example during the last two years, while the city was facing some pretty hard decision for cuts due to state and federal funding that was withdrawn, we heard from senior and disability advocates who wanted the city to continue funding services and community

based adult services and unlock was particularly effective to bringing speakers to the events and we also heard from the aids activist, the panel, the aids foundation and others. and both the mayor and the board of supervisors responded to this advocacy and found ways to maintain the funding levels for the loss of the federal funds. we can't emphasize enough for how much your voice counts and encourage you to speak during public comment. our office always provides support for the mayor's budgeted town hall meetings to make sure that there is accessible access and we provide captioning services and assistive listening devices

and attend the meetings with active concierges. i'm there in case questions come up about our programs. for example last year there were a lot of questions about some of our a d.a. transition groundwork. our first town hall meeting is tomorrow morning sat april 20th until 11:30. will it cover districts 1 and 4 for supervisors mar and tang. it will be held and george washington high school which is 632nd avenue. the second meeting april 22, it will start at 6:00 p.m. and this is for district 10 and 11 with cohen and avalos and will be held at

the southeast facility 1800 oak dale avenue. the schedule is available online by going to s f mayor.org. we'll post the schedule on our website early next week. the last item on my report is to talk about our single room occupancy grab bar manual. by way of that crown, when supervisor mar, first propose an ordinance in grab bar in a single occupancy hotel. our office was very supportive of that and we saw how it was going to benefit both seniors and people with disabilities and help them live gracefully in their affordable

housing. we had a meetings with the stake holders and staff and i spoke before the building commission and code advisory committee and we participated in the press conferences. this work was done in collaboration with and under the leadership of senior and disability action, the sro collaborative and the department of building and housing inspection services who supported and will be responsible for enforcing the ordinance. i was concerned in our early discusses that the property owners wouldn't know how to make these installations. the bathrooms are smaller and narrow and they don't match any pictures that we see in our books. i was concerned that the property owners might oppose the measure because of cost concerns if they thought they would have to demolish the bathrooms. i

developed a technical assistance manual to help the property owners comply and make sure the installation would be safe and usable for people with disabilities. our office wrote the text, we wrote the diagrams and took photos and had draft man finish the product. the good news the mayor passed this in march and passed unanimously by the board of supervisors. and this week under chief housing inspector's leadership mailed it out to 500 sro hotel property owners and this week we'll have the manual up in our website in a fully accessible format. i think this project is a great example of the work that our office does to support the mayor, the board of supervisors, other city departments and of course people with disabilities. for

those of you who the council members receive this via e-mail you have it in your packets and the members of the public will have this on the with -- website next week and the manual shows the grab bars and how to install them and how to make them usable. that concludes my directors report and thank you very much for your attention. >> thank you very much, carla. >> okay. next up is item no. 6. information team city careshare. city careshare will provide an overview of it's access program and how the services explain mobility. for those who have use of